Varaha Purana 75.35: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 35
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
वेद्यर्धे दक्षिणे त्रीणि वर्षाणि त्रीणि चोत्तरे । तयोर्मध्ये तु विज्ञेयो यत्र मेरुस्त्विलावृतः ॥ ७५.३५ ॥
vedyārdhe dakṣiṇe trīṇi varṣāṇi trīṇi cottare | tayor madhye tu vijñeyo yatra merus tv ilāvṛtaḥ || 75.35 ||
वेदी के दक्षिण हिस्से में तीन क्षेत्र हैं। उत्तर हिस्से में भी तीन क्षेत्र हैं। दोनों के बीच में वही जगह है जहाँ मेरु पर्वत है, जिसे इलावृत कहते हैं।
Varāha
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It preserves a Purāṇic model of sacred geography, organizing the world into named regions (varṣas) around the axial mountain Meru; such passages are central for studying early Indian cosmographical imagination and its textual transmission.
Ilāvṛta is identified as the central region where Mount Meru is located; in scholarship it is generally treated as a mythic-cosmological space rather than a directly mappable modern location.
The verse primarily conveys cosmographical classification rather than a direct ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction lies in presenting an ordered, intelligible structure of the world as a framework for cultural memory and sacred topography.
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